Sapphire x1950 Pro AGP

Introduction

Although PCI-Express has been around for a while now, there are still plenty of people out there that haven’t made the switch yet, and are therefore still using AGP cards. However, there is a problem here as a lot of manufacturers offer very few options for AGP gamers. Fortunately, Sapphire are not a company to let this lot down and have sent us their x1950 Pro AGP to let us see what it can do.

Features

36 pixel shader processors

8 vertex shader processors

Up to 256-bit 8 channel GDDR3 memory interface

Native PCI Express® x16 bus interface

Plug-and-play (native) CrossFire™

Shader Technology

Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.

Shader Model 3.0 vertex and pixel shader support:

Full speed 32-bit floating point processing

High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending and anti-aliasing support